In recent times, choosing a motherboard cannot
be completely determined by a Winstone score. Now, many boards come within one Winstone
point of each other and therefore the need to benchmark boards against each other falls.
Therefore you shouldn't base your decision entirely on the benchmarks you see here, but
also on the technical features and advantages of this particular board, seeing as that
will probably make the greatest difference in your overall experience.

How I Tested

Each benchmark was run a minimum of 2 times
and a maximum of 5 times, if the motherboard failed to complete a single test within the 5
allocated test runs the OS/Software was re-installed on a freshly formatted Hard Drive and
the BIOS settings were adjusted to prevent the test from failing again. All such
encounters were noted at the exact time of their occurrence.

Business Winstone 97 / Business Graphics
Winmark 97 was run at each individually tested clock speed, if reliable scores were
achieved with the first two test runs of the suite an average of the two was taken and
recorded as the final score at that clock speed. If the test system displayed
erratic behavior while the tests were running or the results were incredibly low/high the
tests were re-run up to 5 times and an average of all the test runs was taken and recorded
at the final score at that clock speed

Business Winstone 98 / Business Graphics
Winmark 98 was run on the Pentium MMX at 233MHz, and the AMD K6 at 233MHz, the averaging
rules for these tests are the same as those used for the 97 test suites.

Business Winstone 98 was run on the Pentium
II at 300MHz alone.

After each motherboard was tested a complete
format of the test hard drive was initiated and the OS/benchmarking software was
re-installed afterwards a defragment was initiated using Windows 95's Disk Defragmentation
Utility

No foreign drivers were present in the test
system other than those required for the system to function to the best of its ability

All foreign installation files were moved to
a separate partition during the test as to prevent them from effecting the test results

The AT form factor Pentium II LX motherboard
market is scarce right now, making the only competitors those that dominate the land,
until another manufacturer steps up with a highly overclockable Pentium II LX (AT)
motherboard the TMC AI6NL seems to be the best choice, there is always the MTech M628 as well.